If you ever want to see an example of what writers have have to go though, then just watch "The Twilight Zone" episode, "The Bard". Jack Weston plays the worlds worst tv writer, who while working on a script about a man that marries a witch (this was two years before "Bewitched") accidently conjures up William Shakespeare. WS writes a script that everyone loves, then during the rehearsal they proceede to change everything in the script. It is a very funny episode.

Rod Serling wrote it to show some of the problems he had getting the episodes on the air, and how they will praise a script, then turn around and gut it of everything the claimed that they loved about it.

David.

From what I'd read before, the idea was that it was a silicon-based organism, and silicon compounds tend to react better (rather than being a wholesale replacement for carbon) in highly acidic solutions; hence, acid for blood. The bulkhead scene occurs when they first try and dissect the now defunct facehugger.

But going through an entire bulkhead...

"I TOLD you building a ship from foamed zinc was a bad idea!"

Makes sense.

As for the acid-blood eating through the "glass" faceplate and "glass" window, they would more likely be made of plastic. The ones in use today are polycarbonate, and polycarbonate is subject to attack by some acids.

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SeanF wrote:
I agree but for different reasons, maybe it's just me but I actually think it was a very good movie(for a scifi comedy anyway..) while Buffy sucks royally.

Hm. I guess Finland must be some kind of bizarro-America, where what sucks here is seen as very good there, and what's very good here royally sucks there.

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

Hmm, considering what passes for so-called "blockbusters" in Hollywood these days, are you sure it's Finland that's flipped inside-out?

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Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

Oh, another real world equivalence? Ever pull a nail out of a tire. Big enough hole and it'll just spew till flat. Ever see a sidewall seperate? I watched a lady get knocked a good 5 feet away from her tire when it happened and she only had 25 pounds of preasure in it. Sounded like a stick of dynamite.
(by mr clean)

by law here in aussie reinflating semi trailer tyres(18 wheelers or tractor trailers i think the usa calls em?)
requires them to be in a cage
because quite a few people(mostly apprentices at tyre shops) have been kiled by failures
our local tyre shop has a steel beam in the roof that was bent by one that failed on inflation-lucky the guy had his head out of the way

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Surely if you are going to start a conspiracy theory it is best to start with something that might have a grain of truth or reality in it. To start with the preposterous and go downhill from there is just stupid. steve(primus) (Avatar)

I didn't say one was right and one was wrong, just that they appeared to be opposites.

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alternately, I live in Finland. (okay, no, I don't much care for, well, any of the Alien movies. not my thing. but nor is Buffy.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Ah, sorry Jason, I was being facetious. I guess my whimsical intent didn't carry well enough.

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And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

So if we were to perform a scientific survey to see the extent of the Finland=bizarro-America thing I guess you could be the control.

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Jason wrote:
Yes Jason, my post was an adequate description of my country, I mean why bother with expensive traveling or boring geography when you can find out what other countries are like by just reading these posts, great!

Oh, excellent. I'll just call up my travel agent and cancel that trip to Finland then.
Anyone else out there able to give me short description of your country so I don't have to visit?

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

OK - I can see that.

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I assumed that - if they had actually thought about it at all - the blood wasn't really acid, but was just called that. Instead, it was a mixture that contained powerful biological nanomachines that, for a time, were capable of breaking down a wide variety of materials outside their normal environment. It would make a very useful defense mechanism.

I've seen it described somewhere that the formulation as it exists in Alien blood happens to be in a "stable" state. When it is released into air, a chemical reaction occurs such that it gains its highly corrosive nature. I have no idea if this sort of chemistry could work out. I guess it sounds good enough to me, who doesn't have the chemistry background to call BS on it. (I wouldn't say it is ironclad to me, either, as I believe my earlier comments are on record to suggest the "phenomenon" of "acid" wrt Xenomorphs doesn't seem particularly well thought out as far as how it behaves on things.)

One thing that I did think was pretty cool in Resurrection was the swim stroke Ripley clone was doing in that underwater scene. That looks like it would be highly effective for forward thrust, but I've never tried it to find out. Does that stroke really exist (for those who are expert swimmers here?), or has anybody ever tried it?

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as far as i remember she was just doing ordinary breast stroke.

Is the breast stroke done with hands together?

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It's meant to resemble the way the aliens swim, isn't it? Again showing that she's not entirell human.

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